Jami' at-Tirmidhi
Jami` at-Tirmidhi 3273
حَدَّثَنَا ابْنُ أَبِي عُمَرَ، حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ بْنُ عُيَيْنَةَ، عَنْ سَلاَّمٍ، عَنْ عَاصِمِ بْنِ أَبِي النَّجُودِ، عَنْ أَبِي وَائِلٍ، عَنْ رَجُلٍ، مِنْ رَبِيعَةَ قَالَ قَدِمْتُ الْمَدِينَةَ فَدَخَلْتُ عَلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم فَذُكِرْتُ عِنْدَهُ وَافِدَ عَادٍ فَقُلْتُ أَعُوذُ بِاللَّهِ أَنْ أَكُونَ مِثْلَ وَافِدِ عَادٍ . قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم " وَمَا وَافِدُ عَادٍ " . قَالَ فَقُلْتُ عَلَى الْخَبِيرِ سَقَطْتَ إِنَّ عَادًا لَمَّا أُقْحِطَتْ بَعَثَتْ قَيْلاً فَنَزَلَ عَلَى بَكْرِ بْنِ مُعَاوِيَةَ فَسَقَاهُ الْخَمْرَ وَغَنَّتْهُ الْجَرَادَتَانِ ثُمَّ خَرَجَ يُرِيدُ جِبَالَ مَهْرَةَ فَقَالَ اللَّهُمَّ إِنِّي لَمْ آتِكَ لِمَرِيضٍ فَأُدَاوِيَهِ وَلاَ لأَسِيرٍ فَأُفَادِيَهُ فَاسْقِ عَبْدَكَ مَا كُنْتَ مُسْقِيَهُ وَاسْقِ مَعَهُ بَكْرَ بْنَ مُعَاوِيَةَ . يَشْكُرْ لَهُ الْخَمْرَ الَّذِي سَقَاهُ فَرُفِعَ لَهُ سَحَابَاتٌ فَقِيلَ لَهُ اخْتَرْ إِحْدَاهُنَّ فَاخْتَارَ السَّوْدَاءَ مِنْهُنَّ فَقِيلَ لَهُ خُذْهَا رَمَادًا رَمْدَدًا لاَ تَذَرُ مِنْ عَادٍ أَحَدًا وَذُكِرَ أَنَّهُ لَمْ يُرْسَلْ عَلَيْهِمْ مِنَ الرِّيحِ إِلاَّ قَدْرُ هَذِهِ الْحَلْقَةِ يَعْنِي حَلْقَةَ الْخَاتَمِ . ثُمَّ قَرَأَ : (إذْ أَرْسَلْنَا عَلَيْهِمُ الرِّيحَ الْعَقِيمَ * مَا تَذَرُ مِنْ شَيْءٍ أَتَتْ عَلَيْهِ إِلاَّ جَعَلَتْهُ كَالرَّمِيمِ ) الآيَةَ . قَالَ أَبُو عِيسَى وَقَدْ رَوَى غَيْرُ وَاحِدٍ هَذَا الْحَدِيثَ عَنْ سَلاَّمٍ أَبِي الْمُنْذِرِ عَنْ عَاصِمِ بْنِ أَبِي النَّجُودِ عَنْ أَبِي وَائِلٍ عَنِ الْحَارِثِ بْنِ حَسَّانَ وَيُقَالُ لَهُ الْحَارِثُ بْنُ يَزِيدَ .
Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.
A man from Rabi‘ah said: I came to Madinah and entered upon the Messenger of Allah. The story of the envoy of ‘Ad was mentioned, and I said, ‘I seek refuge in Allah from being like the envoy of ‘Ad.’ The Messenger of Allah asked, ‘What was the story of the envoy of ‘Ad?’ I replied, ‘You have asked someone who knows it. When ‘Ad suffered drought, they sent Qayl. He stayed with Bakr ibn Mu‘awiyah, who gave him wine to drink, and two singing girls sang for him. Then Qayl set out for the mountains of Mahrah and said, “O Allah, I have not come to You to cure a sick person or ransom a captive. Give Your servant water as You will, and give water along with him to Bakr ibn Mu‘awiyah”—in gratitude for the wine he had given him. Clouds were raised up for him, and he was told, “Choose one of them.” He chose the black cloud. He was told, “Take it as ashes, leaving none of ‘Ad alive.” It is said that the wind sent against them was only as wide as this ring’—meaning a signet ring. Then he recited: ‘We sent upon them the barren wind; it left nothing it came upon without turning it to decayed remains’ (Qur’an 51:41–42). Abu ‘Isa said: More than one transmitter narrated this hadith from Sallam Abu al-Mundhir, from ‘Asim ibn Abi al-Najud, from Abu Wa’il, from al-Harith ibn Hassan, who is also called al-Harith ibn Yazid.
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
Retained the envoy’s ironic gratitude for the wine, his choice of the black cloud, and the ring-sized wind detail. The source gives variant names for the envoy in its chain note; it does not state an explicit grading in this passage.